void
createSparkThread (Capability *cap)
{
StgTSO *tso;
tso = createIOThread (cap, RtsFlags.GcFlags.initialStkSize,
(StgClosure *)runSparks_closure);
traceEventCreateSparkThread(cap, tso->id);
appendToRunQueue(cap,tso);
}
void
tryWakeupThread (Capability *cap, StgTSO *tso)
{
traceEventThreadWakeup (cap, tso, tso->cap->no);
#ifdef THREADED_RTS
if (tso->cap != cap)
{
MessageWakeup *msg;
msg = (MessageWakeup *)allocate(cap,sizeofW(MessageWakeup));
SET_HDR(msg, &stg_MSG_TRY_WAKEUP_info, CCS_SYSTEM);
msg->tso = tso;
sendMessage(cap, tso->cap, (Message*)msg);
debugTraceCap(DEBUG_sched, cap, "message: try wakeup thread %ld on cap %d",
(W_)tso->id, tso->cap->no);
return;
}
#endif
switch (tso->why_blocked)
{
case BlockedOnMVar:
case BlockedOnMVarRead:
{
if (tso->_link == END_TSO_QUEUE) {
tso->block_info.closure = (StgClosure*)END_TSO_QUEUE;
goto unblock;
} else {
return;
}
}
case BlockedOnMsgThrowTo:
{
const StgInfoTable *i;
i = lockClosure(tso->block_info.closure);
unlockClosure(tso->block_info.closure, i);
if (i != &stg_MSG_NULL_info) {
debugTraceCap(DEBUG_sched, cap, "thread %ld still blocked on throwto (%p)",
(W_)tso->id, tso->block_info.throwto->header.info);
return;
}
// remove the block frame from the stack
ASSERT(tso->stackobj->sp[0] == (StgWord)&stg_block_throwto_info);
tso->stackobj->sp += 3;
goto unblock;
}
case BlockedOnBlackHole:
case BlockedOnSTM:
case ThreadMigrating:
goto unblock;
default:
// otherwise, do nothing
return;
}
unblock:
// just run the thread now, if the BH is not really available,
// we'll block again.
tso->why_blocked = NotBlocked;
appendToRunQueue(cap,tso);
// We used to set the context switch flag here, which would
// trigger a context switch a short time in the future (at the end
// of the current nursery block). The idea is that we have just
// woken up a thread, so we may need to load-balance and migrate
// threads to other CPUs. On the other hand, setting the context
// switch flag here unfairly penalises the current thread by
// yielding its time slice too early.
//
// The synthetic benchmark nofib/smp/chan can be used to show the
// difference quite clearly.
// cap->context_switch = 1;
}